The wrong transmigrator assigned by the system

Although the outer city walls were protected by magic arrays, they would still be breached by these monsters if things continued this way. Therefore, Liu Ming felt that it was better to retreat than to fight them to the death. After all, these creatures were immune to magic, or at least not to low-powered magic, which was a problem. Using powerful magic might backfire, such as accidentally killing his own soldiers.

If Liu Ming and his group were in Erebus, it wouldn't be so bad; they're all from the same principality, and if he accidentally harmed one of their own, everyone would believe it was accidental. But this is Tartarus, not Erebus. Causing trouble in a foreign country is practically suicidal.

However, Winslant shook his head and said, "Although Tartarus is mountainous, we cannot allow them to enter. If we let them kill, we will be held responsible."

“But we can’t win! Those things aren’t even living beings; our bows and swords can’t hurt them at all. Fighting to the death is just futile…” Seeing that Winslant refused to retreat, Liu Ming immediately explained.

“No need to say anything!” Winslant interrupted him, saying, “I know very well what you’re worried about. So I can tell you, just do it! I’ll take full responsibility! As long as you don’t wipe us all out.”

Instantly, Liu Ming fell silent.

Since Winslant had already said that, he couldn't say anything more. He could only turn his gaze to the monsters that the mountain giants had transformed into.

A few moments later, Liu Ming took out a small cloth bag filled with the holy scriptures of the Church of Light. He said, "The method I'm about to use is very dangerous, so please be careful."

Upon hearing this, Winslant smiled slightly and said, "Fate has already been decided. Let's do it!"

"I don't believe in fate," he said calmly, then emptied the contents of the cloth bag into his hand.

Those were 108 tiny seeds of an unknown plant. Each one emanated an ominous energy, as if they were the seeds of some terrifying plant.

Holding the 6 seeds, Liu Ming took a deep breath, then forcefully flung his hand, sending the seeds crashing down the outer city wall. At the same time, he took out a bottle of White Dragon Hiss's blood and fell down the outer city wall!

Neither Winslant and his group nor the elves knew what Liu Ming was doing.

However, they did not know that the monsters that the mountain giants had transformed into knew what it was, and they all retreated dozens of meters and roared at the outer city wall.

This situation was strange, but no one knew why it was strange. If Liu Ming's actions were strange, then why did the monsters transformed from mountain giants retreat? What was the source of this lingering unease?

Suddenly, a crystal appeared beneath the outer city wall, right where the seed and dragon blood were!

"What!?" Just as the elven soldiers were laughing at the high-profile performance of Liu Ming and the monsters that the mountain giants had transformed into, only to find that the effect was so poor, several huge tree roots suddenly broke through the ground and spread along with the crystals. In just a few seconds, they intertwined and transformed into a giant plant dragon covered in crystals!

"See? This is taboo." Liu Ming looked up at the sky and smiled slightly.

Chapter 37 - Crystal Tree Dragon (Previous chapters were incorrectly numbered)

Seeing Lu Ming's inexplicable smile in the magical image and hearing those words that shouldn't have been recorded, General Roas was furious. He smashed his wine glass on the ground and roared, "Damn humans! How dare... how dare you mock me! You two listen up, I want you to completely overrun Slanlot Castle with all your soldiers, I want to raze this fortress to the ground!!"

However, his daughter Camillas and Kaguga, sent by the Church of the Deep to help him, remained unmoved by his commands, simply watching with their heads bowed as the red wine from the glasses slowly seeped into the carpet on the floor and into the soil below.

Upon seeing this, Roas immediately calmed down.

'That damned human did it on purpose! He deliberately used magic to make me hear that sentence, just to provoke me into sending troops so that thing could wipe out all my soldiers!' Roas's face was grim as he watched the thing in the magical image fight the 'Giant's Hammer,' a monster transformed from a mountain giant, to a standstill. Gradually, he understood the purpose of Lu Ming's words. So, after gritting his teeth and thinking for a while, he said, 'Kakuga, find out what that thing's weakness is as soon as possible! And find out whether it has a time limit or not!'

"Yes, General!" Hearing that there was no need to send troops recklessly, Kaguga breathed a slight sigh of relief. After responding to General Roas's order, he turned his gaze to the magical screen.

'Forbidden power, does such a thing really exist? Or is this just Lu Ming trying to scare us...?'

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Large swaths of crystals appeared beneath the Crystal Tree Dragon, which consisted of trees and enormous grayish-white crystals, and slowly spread outwards. Wherever they went, whether it was flowers, trees, or wounded elves, they were all cursed and killed by these crystals, their bodies drained of every drop of fluid, turning into things that looked like dried-up stones.

The crystals spread slowly, both towards the elves and towards the outer city wall where Lu Ming and the others were, shimmering with an ominous luster under the sunlight.

As the crystals spread to the outer city wall's crenellations, Lu Ming suddenly took two steps back and said to Winslant and Ramanlas, "Be careful not to get covered by those crystals, or you'll be cursed to death! Also, tell everyone else on the outer city wall to leave here using the teleportation magic circle. The crystals will spread over there!"

Upon hearing this, Ramanras, knowing what the crystals were, immediately ordered a thousand soldiers from the Yugsotus Cavalry to evacuate the non-combat personnel and protect them. Meanwhile, Winslant began issuing orders to the soldiers on the outer city walls to be extremely careful of the crystals; if their bodies were completely covered in them, they would be dead!

However, even so, some fools were still caught off guard by the crystals and ended up being cursed to death.

Looking at the Crystal Tree Dragon that looked almost exactly like the White Dragon Seath, with no hind legs, only two wooden tentacles and a tree root tail for movement, and four wings covered in crystals on its back, Ramanlas couldn't help but glance at Lu Ming and ask, "Did you resurrect the White Dragon Seath, or was it the influence of the White Dragon Seath's blood that made it look like this?"

"If I were to resurrect the White Dragon Hiss, its first instinct should be to attack our side, not to fight those mountain giants that have turned into monsters! This Duke still harbors a great hatred for us!" Lu Ming said with a smile as he swept away the crystals on his side's ramparts with the bow of his Dragon Slayer Greatbow.

"..." Upon hearing Lu Ming's reply, Ramanlas didn't say anything. After all, Winslant and Torres were listening intently, eager to hear what they were saying. It wouldn't be good if they accidentally found out something.

Although, she had already said enough to Lu Ming.

Just as Lu Ming and his companions were on the city wall, relentlessly shattering the ever-regenerating crystals on the parapet with their weapons, the monsters transformed from the mountain giants roared angrily under the oppressive aura of the Crystal Tree Dragon, and then they pounced on the Crystal Tree Dragon.

Compared to a true dragon, the Crystal Tree Dragon's abilities are only at the strongest level of a sub-dragon, and it's nowhere near as powerful as an ancient dragon like Seath the White Dragon. The reason Seath lost to Lu Ming and his group was simply because it didn't have scales. If Seath had scales, Lu Ming and his companions would have been no match for it.

Therefore, when the Crystal Tree Dragon fought against the mineral monster that the Mountain Giant had transformed into, it could only remain undefeated and could not gain any advantage in the siege of more than twenty monsters whose strength was equivalent to that of a low-level dragon.

Seeing this, the morale of the elves was greatly boosted. Although the artificial wyvern that Miracaesar had painstakingly created was powerful, it was unable to defeat the mineralized mountain giant monster.

However, even so, the elves were unable to continue their siege due to the vast expanse of crystals spreading from the Crystal Tree Dragon. No matter how high the elven army's morale, they couldn't afford to act recklessly. Countless elves had already proven that the crystals were an insurmountable barrier for flesh and blood; any life that stepped into them would be devoured.

However, bad news soon befell the elven army.

During the battle with the Crystal Tree Dragon, the mineral monsters that the mountain giants transformed into remained within that large expanse of crystals from beginning to end. As a result, after a period of fighting, varying degrees of crystallization appeared on their bodies.

Upon seeing the crystals appear on the bodies of these mountain giants transformed into crystalline monsters, the guards led by Winsland, Tures, and Ramanlas immediately cheered loudly, while Lu Ming remained calm.

This was the first time he had used this stuff in actual combat. Although he had done experiments before, he had only used the blood of rodent-like magical beasts, and only a drop or two at that. It was nothing like this, where a whole bottle of dragon blood was used.

Therefore, Lu Ming had no idea about the Crystal Tree Dragon's combat strength.

However, Lu Ming was still confident in the Crystal Tree Dragon's strength. At the very least, something transformed from a seed blessed by Kaeya couldn't be too weak.

"Roar~!!" With a loud roar, the Crystal Tree Dragon swung its claws, its grayish-white crystalline claws viciously grabbing at the stone sea urchin that was a mountain giant in disguise. Unlike the other tiny crystals, the grayish-white crystalline claws easily tore through the stone sea urchin's body, exposing its still-unmineralized heart to everyone's view!

Staring at the enormous and repulsive heart, the Crystal Tree Dragon roared, then took a deep breath, inhaling a large amount of air, and finally exhaled a grayish-white dragon breath at the heart.

A grayish-white, flame-like substance spewed from the mouth of the Crystal Tree Dragon, crystallizing everything it touched!

As the heart of the stone urchin completely crystallized, its stone body cracked and turned into powder, leaving only the parts that had been assimilated by the crystallization.

Immediately, the elven army descended into chaos. None of the elves had imagined that the Crystal Tree Dragon created by Lu Ming could destroy their strongest biological weapon besides the terrifying giants. Therefore, in that instant, their morale, which had just risen, plummeted again, to a very low level.

"So they weren't completely mineralized after all! But then again, giants are the same, aren't they?" Lu Ming, who had witnessed the whole process of the Crystal Tree Dragon killing the first mountain giant and turning into a monster, couldn't help but laugh.

Although these monsters have maximized the energy from their giant bloodline, they still cannot completely mineralize themselves. Just as giants, despite having skin as tough as dragon scales, are still flesh and blood, they are not invincible! Their weakness is obvious: their huge and filthy hearts!

"Roar~!!!" After realizing that one of their companions had been killed by the Crystal Tree Dragon, the monsters began to charge at the Crystal Tree Dragon like madmen, causing the Crystal Tree Dragon to let out a roar.

A giant insect made of rock and metal suddenly plunged its chelicerae into the wooden body of the Crystal Tree Dragon.

But before the monster and the elves could rejoice, the Crystal Tree Dragon slammed its claw down on the huge, disgusting insect, smashing its upper body to pieces and exposing its heart.

However, this time, the monsters transformed from the mountain giants didn't give the Crystal Tree Dragon a chance to kill the insect monster. They relentlessly attacked, forcefully suppressing the Crystal Tree Dragon and giving their insect-monster companion time to recover. With each heartbeat, fragments of the insect monster's body gradually floated into the air. Then, as the heart beat faster, these fragments slowly drifted back into its body, transforming back into its original form...

With a deafening boom, a lightning-studded dragon-hunting arrow shattered the heart of the mountain giant, which had transformed into a mineral insect monster, killing it instantly!

The only person capable of firing this large arrow is Lu Ming, who still holds the Dragon-Hunting Great Bow.

The instant he saw the insect monster trying to let its body fragments float back to its previous state, Lu Ming decisively fired the Dragon Hunter Thunder Arrow. It passed through the gaps between the floating rock fragments and hit the bullseye, instantly killing the giant insect monster made of rock and metal!

The monsters were stunned for a moment because of the tragic death of their companions, and then they all became furious.

However, before they could launch their attack, the Crystal Tree Dragon shattered the bodies of its two companions with a single claw and unleashed a terrifying crystalline breath, causing them to be cursed to death as their hearts were crystallized by the breath!

"Damn humans!" Seeing the four monsters transformed from the mountain giants by the curse buried within them easily killed by the Crystal Tree Dragon, the elven officers glared furiously at Miracaesar's army on the outer walls of Slanlot Castle. They began ordering their mages to use magic to attack the Crystal Tree Dragon, hoping to aid the monsters transformed from the mountain giants and give them an opportunity to kill the Crystal Tree Dragon.

Because the Crystal Tree Dragon's body is composed of trees and crystals, the fire magic used by the elven mages is quite damaging to it. However, it will take some time for the elven mages' fire magic to dry out and ignite the Crystal Tree Dragon. Therefore, what the elven officers wanted to see did not happen immediately.

This led to something very bad happening to the Elven army.

Because of the fire magic attack, the Crystal Tree Dragon, which had not been paying attention to the elves, turned its head towards where the elven mages were.

Immediately, the elven mages and soldiers were terrified and wanted to scatter and flee. They didn't want to become mineralized mummies covered in crystals, so their natural thought was to run as far away as possible.

Unfortunately, no matter how fast they run, they can't possibly match the speed of a dragon's breath!

The eyeless Crystal Tree Dragon took a deep breath the instant the elves scattered and fled, inhaling air and light into its mouth, which it then exhaled along with the dragon's breath flames, making the grayish-white flames even more ferocious.

"Ahhhhhh!!" "I can't help it!!" "Help me!!"

Numerous elves wailed and screamed amidst the terrifying dragon's breath, gradually crystallizing and cursing to death as they stood there like statues, recounting the ordeal they had suffered.

Seeing this, the remaining elves were naturally terrified. However, as elves, the mages among them did not choose to flee like the other soldiers. Instead, they chose a dead end: to join forces and cast a forbidden spell, intending to destroy the Crystal Tree Dragon, the monster transformed from the Mountain Giant, and Slanlot Castle together!

But their plan was doomed to failure, because Lu Ming and the mages of Yogthotus were already on guard against them. They had barely begun their incantation when Lu Ming's Dragon-Slaying Lightning Arrow and the magical bombardment from Yogthotus's mages rained down on them, instantly slaughtering them all, leaving no one alive.

While the Crystal Tree Dragon was gradually beginning to suppress the berserk mineralized mountain giant monsters, its claws could easily shatter their bodies, allowing Lu Ming, Ramanlas, and the beast-eared officer to shoot the monsters in the heart with the Dragon Hunter Greatbow, thus killing them.

When only a few mineralized mountain giant monsters remained, the elven army chose to retreat, killing all the seriously wounded who could no longer participate in the battle and would only be a hindrance, to prevent them from being captured by Lu Ming and his group and interrogated to extract any information.

Without the interference of the elven army, Lu Ming and his companions easily defeated the monsters transformed from mountain giants, relying on the power of the Crystal Tree Dragon.

After the last mineralized mountain giant monster was defeated, the Crystal Tree Dragon roared and crystallized, shattering into countless tiny crystalline fragments. Only a small child, appearing to be four or five years old with crystalline flowers on his head, remained, weeping amidst the crystalline fragments… (To be continued…)

Chapter Thirty-Eight - The Holy Stone Experiment

Emerging from the gates of Slanlot Castle, Lu Ming walked through the crystal, which no longer possessed the power to spread and devour everything, and came to a small child who was crying because he had lost his power. He gently picked the child up.

The child looked to be about four or five years old, and was very cute with delicate features. On the right side of his head, his light red hair contained crystallization composed of several small grayish-white crystals, adding to the child's mystique.

He wrapped the child's body in a clean cloak, and then carried the child toward Slanlot Castle.

As he passed by several mummified elven corpses that had been devoured by crystals and turned into minerals, Lu Ming glanced at the bodies and then seemed lost in thought.

When Lu Ming returned to Slanlot Castle carrying the child born from the Crystal Tree Dragon's body, the little boy had already stopped crying. At this moment, he was observing his surroundings with his amber eyes, carefully looking at the soldiers and commanders who were scrutinizing him.

"Is this child the wooden dragon?" Tures stood in front of Lu Ming, carefully examining the child Lu Ming was holding.

Lu Ming did not answer, but simply handed the child over to Tures and then left him alone.

Holding the child, Tures was somewhat speechless. However, now that the child was in her hands, Lu Ming could forget about getting the child back!

However, Lu Ming would be a fool to even think about going back! That child was born from the seed of a plum tree blessed by the god Kaiya, which is basically equivalent to a member of Kaiya's family. And Lu Ming's family has several members of the Old Gods' families! If he brings another one back, his family's finances will have to pay a large sum of money again.

Besides, that girl Roya will definitely be jealous and interrogate him about why he didn't use the thing He gave him to create a stronger familiar. So, in order to live a little longer, it's better to let someone else raise that child. For example, Torres would be a good choice...

Of course, this was also the reason why Lu Ming made the decision when he saw that Torres did not show the same fear towards the child as the others.

At this moment, the rugged-looking Tures was rubbing his face against the child's, seemingly quite fond of him. Whether he liked the child himself or the child's immense power, no one knew. Perhaps both...

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After having several soldiers from Yggsotus collect the dragon-hunting lightning arrows piled on the city walls and nailed to the ground on the battlefield, and send most of these dragon-hunting lightning arrows to Yggsotus's armory, and give the remaining twenty or thirty to the orc-eared officer who helped shoot with the dragon-hunting bow, Lu Ming went straight back to his room.

Honestly, the Dragonbow is a really strenuous bow to use. Even Lu Ming's arms were aching after drawing it so many times. So all he wanted now was to lie in bed and have someone massage him. However, Ramanlas was in almost the same boat, perhaps even worse, her arms were practically impossible to lift. And Miral and the others should have already retreated with the non-combatants...

"Why are you three still here? Didn't I tell the soldiers to evacuate you?" Lu Ming had just pushed open the door to his room in Slanlot Castle when he saw Miral, Chimera, and Kate waiting for him and Ramanlas to return. He couldn't help but ask angrily.

However, Miral's rebuttal left Lu Ming speechless.

Do you think we'd abandon you and Ramanlas?

That short sentence left Lu Ming speechless, and he ultimately had no choice but to give up on saying anything more about the topic.

Lu Ming and Ramanlas walked over to the bed in a few steps, then lay down on the bed and said to Miral and the other two, "Come over here and help us rub them. Our arms feel like they don't belong to us anymore."

Upon hearing this, Miral and the others looked at Lu Ming speechlessly. He had just been stern and about to scold them, but now he had made the three of them go over and massage the two of them.

Although somewhat speechless, the three women didn't refuse and quickly began massaging Lu Ming and Ramanlas, asking about the battle on the outer city wall. Under their massages, Lu Ming and Ramanlas slowly recounted the events on the outer city wall—of course, after omitting the dangerous parts.